Data Science Manager, Payments

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🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown over the last 10 years in the UK, offering personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account, credit cards, and more. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get‑paid‑early feature, combined with financial education on social media and award‑winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers. We’re not about selling products – we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.

Location: London, UK (remote). Salary: £102,000 to £130,000 + Stock Options + Benefits.

We’re here to make money work for everyone and we’re doing things differently. For too long, banking has been obtuse, complex and opaque. We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our community suggests features, tests the app and gives us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves. We’re focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products, and want to make the world a better place.

The Payments Data team consists of over 15 people across three data disciplines: Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics, and Data Science. Our Payments Collective exists to provide a platform for teams to launch banking products with confidence, enabling Monzo’s global ambitions and driving revenue and customer growth.

You’ll work closely with the Product and Engineering teams in an agile product environment, champion the use of data and bring ideas to life through rigorous analytics. Your work will focus on enabling revenue and customer growth, managing a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts, and collaborating with Analytics Engineers.

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• Lead a discipline of exceptional Data Scientists and Analysts focused on Payments products and experience.
  
• Hire, develop, and retain talented Data people.
  
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders across Monzo to deliver products for our customers.
  
• Bring data leadership and rigour to product development, structuring complex projects with a strategic business understanding.
  
• Define team strategy and create comprehensive roadmaps for all projects.
  
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our Payments strategy.
  
• Work and advise on Payments’s global expansion strategy.
  
• Liaise with Product and Engineering managers to ensure we collect the right data for relevant business insights.
  

Our data platform is the core of our mission to enable Monzo to make better decisions faster. The stack simplifies and re‑uses data, storing everything in a single data warehouse on Google BigQuery.

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• Google Cloud Platform for analytics infrastructure.
  
• dbt and BigQuery SQL for data modelling and warehousing.
  
• Python for data science.
  
• Go for application code.
  
• AWS for most backend infrastructure.
  

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• What we’re doing at Monzo excites you.
  
• You have experience managing a team of Data Scientists.
  
• You are a strong strategic data leader passionate about using data to improve business decisions.
  
• You have strong experience working with executive or C‑level peers and managing stakeholders across seniorities and disciplines.
  
• You know what it takes to manage top‑tier Data talent.
  
• You’re excited by the opportunity to work autonomously and impact a fast‑growing, ever‑evolving business.
  
• You have strong product knowledge and have built data products previously.
  
• You’re familiar with a variety of Data Science tools and coding languages (Python and SQL) and know when to pick the right tool.
  
• Experience in Payments is a plus but not required.
  

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• 30‑minute recruiter call.
  
• 45‑minute initial call.
  
• 3 x 1‑hour video calls, including a technical case study.
  

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• Assist with relocation to the UK.
  
• Sponsor visas.
  
• Role can be based in London office or distributed within the UK with ad‑hoc meetings in London.
  
• Flexible working hours; trust to work hours that suit you and your team.
  
• Learning budget of £1,000 per year for books, training courses and conferences.
  
• Additional benefits listed in our full benefits catalog.
  

We’re an equal‑opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. At Monzo we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives.

We’re on the look out for Data Science Manager, L50. If you are passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t have everything listed.